The US is the Saudi’s meal ticket; in addition, among what Ariel Sharon once called, those 3000 corrupt princes, there are those who finance al-Qaeda; at minimum, the House of Saud pays for all these mosques around the US, CAIR, and of course, flight lessons. But they aren’t ready to dominate the world, they can’t even dominate the Middle East. They can’t be trusted with a burned out match. They are indeed our enemy, but they are also a sitting duck, and we have a near-monopsony relationship due to our level of consumption. Furthermore, they don’t make *anything* — as P.J. O’Rourke wrote, “the best thing we have going for us at the gas pump is the no-account, bone-idle, useless bums sitting on 65 per cent of the world’s oil... [T]he total nonpetrochemical exports of the Arab world do not equal Finland’s.”
They can’t eat sand, and no one there knows how to work.
Crank up them derricks off the coast of California, drill more in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska and lets get that low polluting coal out of the ground above the Grand Canyon.
And build refineries.